Test Resistance one Oun Own Corssroxen Canton, Dee. $0, ABout 15 or 20. per' cent Canton's population -may well termed its floating population, dritt~ ing a yy to other parts when there Iga war scare, coming back when their nerves get a bit steady' again Talk of promiscuous bombing on a wholesale scale, and of the certainty of an invasion of South China from the sea, as evidenced by a fleet of 20. Jepanese~ warsh Mac have "gotten the Hongkong once more, Nor have all of the more timid picked "Hongkong os the safe spot this time. Too much gossip about Britain being China's ally has had the marked tendency to turn their thoughts to Kwangsi.as a safer asylum and many of "the throngs that "have been "arriving from Hankow have hed their luggage carried over to West River ships hat will take them to Wuchow.
'Japanese infantrymen tried, Biss Bay, marines at Mirs Bay, to put ashore in the one instance 1,000, the other 800, men, doubtless without the serious Intention of maintaining a foothold on' Chinese: sell, but simply to the strength Chinese. resistance. It is significant that both times planes flew over the ronds to detect signs of troops heinie moved up.
Equally signifeant is the way in which alr raids have been conduct ed, On three separate days it was more than five hours after the first warning was sounded in Canton unfit the "all clear" signal was given, and one group after another of Japanese aircraft followed the path of. the Canton-Kowloon, Canton Hankow and. Canton-Samshui Railways, "Yet, 20. to 35 aeroplanes Groped very few bombs, but did a Jot. of "machine-gunning, mostly sprinkling wooded sections with their leaden pellets. The pilots were searching out military encampments, and particularly to catch troops in motion.
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